Alien Breed™ Impact is an explosive science fiction arcade-shooter that resurrects a much revered franchise with an epic story, swarms of highly intelligent alien enemies, high-impact weapons, highly detailed and rich environments; all implemented with superb technology in a state-of-the-art gaming...
Alien Breed™ Impact is an explosive science fiction arcade-shooter that resurrects a much revered franchise with an epic story, swarms of highly intelligent alien enemies, high-impact weapons, highly detailed and rich environments; all implemented with superb technology in a state-of-the-art gaming experience.
Key Features:
Alien Breed is back! - An action-packed mix of arcade-shooter, survival-horror and tactical weapons upgrades and customisation.
Epic single-player story mode - The single-player campaign mode that follows the narrative of the game through five huge and challenging environments.
Single-player free-play mode - A single-player challenge mode – beat your high score on a previously completed campaign mission.
Upgrades shop - Search fallen comrades and lockers to accumulate cash, and then tactically spend it on weapons/kit upgrades in the shop.
Enemies - Re-imagined and improved Alien Breed enemies.
Overall the game is enjoyable. Lots of looting and shooting, a pretty straightforward plot and a cool sci-fi vibe. Not bad at all.
I will, however, mention that there are some bits that don't make much sense, mostly about navigation and the way upgrades work, but these are minor annoyances that don't affect the gameplay too much.
In conclusion, I recommend trying this out. Team17 did a decent job with this one.
Terrible controls and terrible camera make for frustrating experience.
The title says it all. I even managed to play the first game with a little .ini hack that enables proper FPS mouse camera. However - in the second game there are too many parts with fixed camera and controls which make it extremely painful to play - think - you can't see where your aim is, and can't shoot an enemy right in front of you.
About the game itself - it is not good. The games are just the same recycled thing, with different loading screen color. Explosions everywhere. Bugs pop out at the exact same spots at the exact same time. Explosions. The whole progress is: go to point A, something explodes, you can't open door/lift/machinery, backtrack to point B, return to point A, kill some more bugs, BOOM, still something doesn't work - backtrack to point C. It makes the game feel longer, but that is not a positive, it is a chore. Weapon and item upgrades are ~25% improvement. Did I mention that there is stuff constantly exploding around you?
There is some story, in the form of comic-styled cinematics, but nothing interesting enought that would make me force myself to play this mess.
Which reminds me - people compare this games as the better version of Shadowgrounds. The graphics are better. Everything else - gameplay, story, characters - are better in the Shadowgrounds series. At least I had FUN playing them, and that is the whole point of playing games.
Buy if you are curious. At a huge discount. Or better watch a playthrough video. You would not miss much. And laugh at the streamer.
Me? I'm calling it quits. Staring at the wall is a time better spent.
Wouldn't launch. Tried all of the suggestions from both GOG and Steams help boards. Nothing. Finally gave up and deleted it. Downloaded Alien breed 2. It also didn't launch, but it gave a "Missing PhysX.exe..." warning. Turn out that it is a nvidia driver. My machine doesn't have a nvidia card but I'll give it a try. What do you know AB2 runs fine. I then reinstalled AB impact, and it runs fine now.
